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NVIDIA's Socket 775 Core Logic Coming Soon

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-into-the-big-boy-space dept.

Hack Jandy writes "NVIDIA dominates a large percentage of AMD chipset sales already, and next week they will reportedly make the announcement to pursue Intel based platforms as well. NVIDIA's General Manager claims March 1st (during the Intel Developer Forum) will be the date the world gets to see NVIDIA's SLI chipset running on a Socket 775 Intel motherboard."

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  1. The question is by alexo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Will it support SoundStorm?

    (Pirst Fost?)

  2. Re:More propietary crap by crow · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Their video drivers are half-decent. By "half" I mean the half that works. Every driver seems to introduce some obscure bug while fixing others. Casual users are fine with most of the drivers, but if you use some special feature like twinview or TV-out overscan, then you have to be careful to use the right version. Oh, and their web pages clearly state that the video cards have on-board MPEG-2 decoding, but there's no driver support for that.

    As to their motherboard drivers, I don't think anyone is using them. Newer kernels include GPL driver support for both ethernet and sound. I've heard some reports that the nVidia driver is better if you need SPDIF-out, but I've also heard reports that those drivers have various problems.

    Still, with all that said, nVidia is clearly head and shoulders above other vendors, and I thank them for their efforts.

  3. Continuance of SLI in nVidia Intel mobo chipsets? by Piewalker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will nVidia continue to pursue SLI configurations in Intel mobos? I think it makes sense to do so. Intel chipsets have a much bigger market, and SLI is just barely coming of age. SLI would certainly distinguish nVidia from other Intel chipset manufacturers. Sounds like nVidia is doing well enough to expand into the Pentium/Celeron/Xeon market. Finally some options for P4 users! But what will they call it??? Will they call their Intel chipsets "nForce" or something else? Waiting for benchmarks...